Jesse Jackson
Born in Greenville, South Carolina, USA — Oct 08 1941• Died Feb 17 2026
Biography
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
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Dinah!
Self
A Different World
Himself
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Cocky Locky (voice)
Baseball
Various (voice)
Explained
Self (archive footage)
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
The Chris Rock Show
Self
Shut Up and Dribble
Self - Civil Rights Leader
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Tanner '88
Himself (uncredited)
Tanner on Tanner
Self
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Self
Obama
Self
Last Party 2000
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
A Man's Story
Self
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
We Are Many
Self
Uptight
Self (archive footage)
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Self (archive footage)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Self (archive footage)
Uncle Tom
Self (archive footage)
Nationtime
Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
Self
Wattstax
Self
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
South to Black Power
Self
Decade
Self
LA 92
Self (archive footage)
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Self (archive footage)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Self
4 Little Girls
Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
I Am MLK Jr.
Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Self
Route One/USA
Self
Save the Children
Self
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Self
Loudmouth
Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Fantastic Lies
Himself (archive footage)
In Remembrance of Martin
Self
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Self
University, Inc.
Self (Archive Footage)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Self (archive footage)
Operation Breadbasket
Self
Bernie Blackout
Self (archive footage)
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Crashing the Party
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self
A Matter of Respect
The Soul of Stax
Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Self (archive Footage)
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
We Are Universal
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Self
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Self
A Decade of Struggle
Self
El otro Rey de Chicago
Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Self (archive footage)
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Self/Cameo (archive footage)
Ballou
Himself
The Day the Troubles Began
Self
Dear Mister President
Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
On Screen Narrator
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Self
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Self
Chicago at the Crossroad
Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Himself